Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Ind. Courts - "Hyperlinking is now available in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana"

Hyperlinking is now available in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Attorneys may file documents with active hyperlinks within e-filed documents. Hyperlinks will
allow immediate access by the reader to the referenced materials, i.e., CM/ECF filings, case and
statute citations, attachments, and exhibits. (Attorneys should check each judge’s practices and
procedures to see if hyperlinks are a requirement.) When utilized by attorneys, hyperlinks in
briefs and other court filings will provide quick, easy, and pinpoint access to particular sections
of a case, specific page numbers, or to specific filings in the court's record. Hyperlinking will
allow Judges to quickly and easily review case-supporting materials.

The court will also be issuing court documents with active hyperlinks, and the court-issued
documents will continue to be available via the Notice of Electronic Filing ("NEF") email
system. NOTE: Even though attorneys can utilize the one “free look” to the e-filed documents
associated with the NEF – accessing other CM/ECF hyperlinked documents contained within the
main document will be subject to normal PACER fees, and any hyperlinks to Westlaw or
LexisNexis citations will require attorneys to login to those services.

Note also the sentence I highlighted above: "Attorneys should check each judge’s practices and
procedures to see if hyperlinks are a requirement." The judges vary as to whether they make their practices and procedures readily available online. Going down the list in the left margin here, I've added a link to the practices and procedures documents of those judges providing such information: